Ham. These tedious old fools!
Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[771]
Pol. You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.[772]
Ros. [To Polonius] God save you, sir! [Exit Polonius.[773]
Guil. My honoured lord![774]
Ros. My most dear lord! 220
Ham. My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern?[775]
Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?[776]
Ros. As the indifferent children of the earth.
Guil. Happy, in that we are not over-happy;[777]
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.[777][778] 225
Ham. Nor the soles of her shoe?[779]